Ingenious Swindle Being Worked in Shanghai: Ships' Crews Victimized Swindles in connexion with Chinese lotteries in Shanghai are said to be almost as numerous as the lotteries themselves, and the reason for this perhaps is that fatal fascination in the prospect of getting rich quickly which makes the crowd an easy prey to the clever rogue.
One member of the fraternity has lately been working a very; clever swindle and has "got away" with quite respectable' sums of money, principally from the crews! of ships in harbour. In the cases reported to the police, his method; of working the oracle has been as} follows:—First obtaining the name of a foreign officer on a ship just arriving, he has waited patiently until the officer selected has come ashore, and then presented himself on board.
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